China News Service, Beijing, May 23 Question: (Interview with the two sessions) Yang Yuanqing looks for opportunities in the epidemic: Intelligent technology has become a "strategic necessity"

  China News Agency reporter Wang Enbo

  Crisis machines always coexist with each other. Overcoming danger is opportunity. For this sentence, Yang Yuanqing, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, has a lot of experience.

  The global spread of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic has caused a serious downturn in the world economy and will inevitably affect the IT industry. As one of the world's largest personal computer manufacturers, Lenovo also faces challenges.

  Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service during the third session of the 13th National People's Congress that the epidemic did have a certain impact on Lenovo's overseas business, but the impact was not significant. The company has a total of more than 30 manufacturing plants around the world. During the outbreak, only the Indian plant was temporarily shut down, and the Mexican plant allowed only some employees to work for a period of time. The two factories have also resumed production.

  He also revealed that Lenovo's Chinese factory has been fully resumed and resumed production, meeting the needs of personal computers for remote office and online learning at home and abroad due to the explosion of the epidemic. In particular, Lenovo's factories in Hefei and Shenzhen have set new production records almost every day in March. "This is a remarkable supply chain achievement."

  After resisting the impact of the epidemic, Yang Yuanqing and the companies he manages are turning their eyes to the front, looking for opportunities in the crisis.

  "The epidemic will accelerate the evolution of scientific and technological revolution and the spread of innovation." Taking history as a mirror, Yang Yuanqing noted that in the high-intensity confrontation and conflict between human civilization and disasters, the demand for science and technology will also rise, thus prompting the emergence of innovation. "This positive cycle not only makes our lives better, but also helps to transform social productivity, create new production methods and development models, and promote human civilization to a higher level."

  In fact, long before the epidemic occurred, a new round of scientific and technological revolution has swept the world and reshaped the industrial landscape. Human society is accelerating from the era of informatization and digitization to the era of intelligence.

  Yang Yuanqing believes that the epidemic has created a unique working and living environment. In the medium and long term, it will further accelerate the implementation of intelligent scenarios, allowing 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, edge computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other intelligent technologies to penetrate like air All aspects of society. "In a unexpected way, the new coronary pneumonia epidemic has turned smart technology into a truly 'strategic necessity'."

  In the process of responding to the epidemic, the wide application of smart technology in all walks of life in China, the official's high attention and strong support for this trend, let him see the turning point in the crisis.

  As mentioned in this government work report, strengthen new infrastructure construction, develop a new generation of information networks, expand 5G applications, build charging piles, promote new energy vehicles, stimulate new consumer demand, and help industrial upgrading.

  In Yang Yuanqing's view, the "new infrastructure" is the new kinetic energy to promote the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industry and realize the high-quality development of the Chinese economy. According to this, he believed that although the epidemic impacted the Chinese economy in the first quarter, it would not affect the long-term fundamentals. "I am still confident in the prospects for China's economic development this year."

  He further stated that the "new infrastructure" is both advanced intelligent technology and infrastructure that empowers a smart economy. One end is connected with huge investment demand, and the other is the escalating enterprise market, which will play a "dual effect" on economic development. This trend brings new opportunities and challenges to Chinese companies. China should fully seize the opportunity, promote the all-round development of the smart economy, complete the industrial transition as soon as possible, and shoulder the responsibility of a big country with a “world factory”.

  According to reports, in the related fields involved in the "new infrastructure", Lenovo's business currently covers the four core technologies of 5G, artificial intelligence, data centers, and industrial Internet. In the future, it will also actively provide core technologies for "new infrastructure" and industrial intelligence. Empower change and become the core provider of "new infrastructure". (Finish)